Quotes About Change

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution.

Great thought speak only to the thoughtful mind ,but great actions speak to all mankind.

The problems differ from generation to generation, but the qualities needed to solve them remain unchanged from world's end to world's end

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

nearly forty hours in the saddle, changing horses five times

The man [Grant] who more than any other, save Lincoln, had changed us into a nation whose citizens were all freemen, realized entirely that these freemen would remain free only while they kept mastery over their own evil passions.

The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research

Environmentalists, by and large, are very deeply invested in tactics that have worked to their satisfaction over the last thirty years, namely scaring and shaming people.... I am questioning whether you can go on doing that indefinitely ... [pushing] that same fear-guilt button over and over again. As psychologists will tell you, when a client comes in with an addiction, they are already ashamed. You don't shame them further.

Change the prevailing mode of consciousness and you change the world.

The real meaning of revolution is not a change in management … but a change in man.

THE DAY The day was a year at first When children played in the garden; The day shrank down to a month When the boys played ball; The day was a week thereafter When young men walked in the garden; the day was itself a day when love grew tall the day shrank down to an hour when old man limped in the garden The day will last forever When it is nothing at all.

Nothing is always absolutely so

Very few battles are ever fought exactly as planned.

life could have been different if the meetings which have decided its course had been less silent, superficial or routine, if more thoughts had been exchanged, if humanity had been more able to show itself in them

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction.

Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.

Don't fall in love with the past, she thought. You don't live there. Now is when you live. "I

Enid thought everybody was like her, they just didn't know it yet. And that someday they would come around, realizing what fools they'd always been by clinging to ideals that got them nowhere. Enid